Ashish Desai aka Mr. Doomsbuster

Don't quit while you suck at it!

I am Ashish Desai (aka Mr. Doomsbuster), an Expert Engineer at JPMorgan Chase. I am a perfectionist and am passionate about web, Linux, machine learning, dev tools and developer productivity. I love programming and want to build my own version of Jarvis, I call it Bageera. I am a superhero movie fanatic and love writing with fountain pens. I dream of ending my purpose on earth by taking a spaceflight to Mars (probably in my self created iron-man like suit)!

My passion for computing started at the age of eleven. Looking at those computer games excited me, as to how they worked. I quickly learnt that C is the mother of all programming languages and I started with this great book called Let Us C, by Yashwant Kanetkar it was an amazing experience. At college, I got knee deep into assembly language programming and I fell in love with it. I would teach assembly programming to other students, part time at
college just for my love of it. Even to this day, I play with Arduino and Raspberry Pi in my home office workshop. I got campus recruited into Cognizant Technology Solutions and rapidly learnt several tools and technologies. I was put on several turn key projects including some of my first front end engineering projects using AJAX and the DOJO toolkits. That was ten years ago, since then the passion for frontend
engineering has made home in my head. I have gained expertise in web technologies, frontend performance tuning and the ecosystem of tools and technologies around it. Well, during all these years there is this another thing that I cared a lot
about and that was Developer Tooling & Productivity. You give me a new tool and within a few hours I would have clicked every possible menu option on the product, even if some of them would break the product to the extent of re-install.
I quickly realized that having a good tool and doing things in a certain way is so important to producing output rapidly. If there is something that slowed me down consistently, I would do something about it. From as naïve as a simple cheat
sheet, code snippet, plugins or tools I build things if it speeds me up. This led me to where I am today, the Chief Development Office in JPMorgan Chase where I continue to explore
my passion for technology, engineering and tooling. If you have a frontend engineering or tooling question I will most likely have answers for it.

Personally, driving is my passion - 0 to 60 mph in 4.3s from a stop light is more adrenaline rush than sky diving, also passionate about computing, animations and computer graphics, VFX, animated motion picture, graphics design, cartooning and
game development! Who knows, a character I created might be in motion pictures someday. I like to get my hands on latest gadgets and experience them first hand. I love fine writing and have recently reignited my passion for fountain pens.
Relentlessly writing with precision instruments like Shaeffer, Monteverde, TWISBI,
Pilot, Nemosine with different colors and inks like Diamine and Iroshizuku Exotic Ink and more is so much fun. Rhodia dotPad - The only thing I write on.

I am actively working on lot of personal projects and am sure that I will build something amazing one day. Like the Iron Man says; I say too - I am a Mechanic, I build and I fix things.

One other thing:

I don't care about attribution. Everything I do, goes under the WTFPL License.

Shit I do that matters

I make developers more productive. I am always thinking about eliminating inefficiencies, introducing automation and improving developer productivity. I evaluate several tools, build plugins, create content and tools
that help you do more with less. Due to the industry I work in, I cannot talk about all the cool things I work on, here is some of it without revealing too much ☺.

I am one of the go to person in the firm, for any questions or advice related to developer tooling, frontend engineering or developer productivity. Frequently you will find me engaging in meaningful
conversations around tooling, productivity and frontend engineering.

I am a JPMorgan Chase Expert Engineer which is an elite group of high performing engineers hand picked and selected through a rigirous selection process. Yeah, there are only a handful of them. I am a winner of the
Expert Engineer "Knowledge Sharing" award.

Creator & evangelist of the JPM Open Source Program which is the firms first "innner sourcing" initiative where innovative minds collaborate.

Passionate about cloud technology and I run initiatives to create public and private clouds for continuous delivery.

I was a lead engineer solving an extremely complex problem around data de-duplication and gaining a single customer view within the bank through use of fuzzy search and application of heuristic algorithms.

I mentor Technology Analysts from TAP Program to help them manage their career and rapidly progress in their technology journey. I believe
in bringing more women in technology and I mentor women associates from the Tech Connect Program helping them navigate their career in technology. I
also mentored women at Per Scholas in one of its women in technology programs.

Expertise

I have expertise in several languages, tools and frameworks. Listing some of the major ones here.

Beginner

Familiar

Expert

Guru

Frontend

HTML 5

CSS 3

JavaScript

NodeJS

SVG

Frameworks

React

Angular

GSAP

{LESS}

Webpack

Graphics Design

Illustrator

Affinity Designer

Photoshop

Middleware

Java

Python

Cloud

Open Stack

Docker

AWS

Infrastructure Engineering

Others

Ubuntu

GIT

Contact Me

If you are contacting me for professional / technology mentorship, send me an email directly at a...@ashishdesai.com
with your name, your gender, your background and why do you need a mentor. Before you do that, answer the following questions and include your responses in your email.

What do you love doing?

What are you passionate about?

Where do you see yourself in 2 years?

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

If you are reaching out for a meetup or a speaking opportunity, I am only interested if the content and video are licensed under WTFPL, if you aren't probably you should.